[DRBD-user] "syncer" crash when doing full resync

Philipp Reisner philipp.reisner at linbit.com
Fri Sep 24 10:33:04 CEST 2004

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On Thursday 23 September 2004 16:55, Kohari, Moiz wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Thank you for a healthy discussion.  I really appreciate your help.
>
> First, the metadata scheme in 0.7 where it requires a 128M dedicated
> partition instead of a small file in /var/lib/drbd is the reason we are
> still using the 0.6.x release.  Is there an easy way around this feature,
> so we can use 0.7 release?
>
> Second, we see the memory corruption problem on multiple machines as well
> as inside our simulation on UML.  In our case the problem is probably not
> related to bad RAM (statistically improbable).  In our case, its either
> random kernel memory corruption from somewhere in the kernel, or a bug in
> DRBD.  Considering that it happens in the *exact* same spot in the drbd
> driver every time for us and other users on this drbd list, the corruption
> has a probability of occurring within drbd?
>
> I am running the kernel with some light instrumentation now and I will
> update you if I find anything more.  In the mean time, if you have any
> other suggestions please feel free to guide me.

So, this indicates that you may have stumbled across a bug in 
drbd-0.6.13 .

  If this were drbd-0.7.x I would try to reproduce that bug, and to fix 
  it...

  If you were a paying LINBIT customer I would try to reproduce that
  bug and try to fix it...

-Philipp
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